Abstract: [Purpose/Significance] Exploring the high-quality development path of new public cultural space from a perspective of configuration can help stakeholders better understand the focus of development, facilitate the upgrading of public cultural services, and elevate the public's sense of cultural acquisition. [Design/Methodology] This paper examines 30 representative cases of new public cultural space as the research object, extracts the core factors of high-quality development from text corpus using grounded theory, and employs the fuzzy set qualitative comparison method to analyze the influence of multiple factors combination on the high-quality development of new public cultural space. [Findings/Conclusion] The high-quality development factors of the new public cultural space can be summarized into five dimensions: human behavior, cultural behavior, form, ecology and business behavior. On this basis, the path to configuring high-quality development of new public cultural space is a humanity-centered space, an ecologically empowered humanity-oriented space, and a cultural integrated space. All kinds of public cultural institutions and their associated subjects should create a "user-oriented" cultural space according to their own positioning, innovate with "digital-intelligent symbiosis" embedded services, and explore a "multi-consumption" cultural scene. [Originality/Value] This paper explores the configuration effect and optimization mechanism of the high-quality development of the new public cultural space, and provides a reference for promoting the high-quality development of the public cultural service system.

Key words: New public cultural space, High-quality development, Configuration path, Public cultural service